After seven years of beta and one year of activity, Google Domains officially closes and sells its assets and business to Squarespace. In the past we have analyzed how Google Domains works, a very useful service as it allows you to register domains by choosing from 300 top-level domain. Well, surprisingly, the time has now come for the end of this solution, whose customers will henceforth be managed by Squarespace.
Google Domains shuts down and sells assets
As a domain registrar, Google Domains offered very useful features such as the privacy WHOIS gratuita e DNSSEC with one click to protect users from DNS spoofing and attacks cache poison. At the same time, it ensured high quality thanks to Big G’s cloud infrastructure and an extremely simple user interface.
Unfortunately, users will have to say goodbye to all of this, as Squarespace has confirmed that they have subscribed to a definitive purchase agreement. Google’s assets will become part of this reality, including ten million domains.
At a time when Google is trying to be more efficient with its resources and reduce expenses – or rather, reallocate money towards priority horizons – this solution appears natural in the eyes of the company. Luckily, Big G has come up with a guided migration journey for Google Domains.
Once regulatory approvals are obtained and the transaction between the two parties closes, Domains customers will officially become Squarespace customers. In addition, Google will become the exclusive domain provider for any customer who purchases a domain with their Workspace subscription directly from Google for a minimum of three years, and will also provide Google Workspace billing and customer support services Sign up for the Google Productivity Suite via Domains.